[Vision2020] Voting and Protesting: History's Lessons?

Wed, 11 Feb 2004 03:22:08 EST

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Donovan:

Do not blame Bush's win in Florida on voter error!  This is a horrendous 
distortion of what happened.  Of course voters made mistakes, but consider that 
thousands of Florida voters did vote correctly, or attempted to vote, but their 
votes were not counted due to machine malfunction, or voters were denied the 
right to vote from an illegal voter purge list enacted by the State of Florida 
under Katherine Harris, that purged legitimate voters from the voting rolls.  
Guess which counties had the highest machine error rate?  Counties with a high 
percentage of Black voters, which just happened to be the poorer counties who 
could not afford to update or maintain their voting machines.  Such an 
unfortunate "accident."  Guess which minority group was heavily represented in the 
illegal voter purge list?  Yes, correct Mr. Donovan, Black voters it is!  And 
let's not forget the felonious absentee ballet application tampering by 
Republican operatives in two Florida counties, Martin and Seminole.  And then no 
quick summary of the fraud in Florida 2000 is complete unless we give honorable 
mention to Republican Congressman Tom Delay's mob of Washington Republican 
staffers flown in to disrupt, with fist pounding yelling harassment INSIDE THE 
BUILDING, the court ordered recount of votes in Miami-Dade County.

Amazing that last week in Moscow protesters were BLOCKED from entering a 
building where a bunch of deluded fundamentalist sexist gay bashers were posing as 
serious intellectuals, misleading those who were unfortunate enough to take 
them seriously.  Yet in Gore v. Bush 2000 in Florida protesters were ALLOWED to 
enter a building to disrupt a court ordered recount of votes.  I guess the 
lesson is that fundamentalist sexist gay bashers are due more police protection 
than civil servants trying to carry out court ordered duties involving the 
heart of our democracy.

It appears we have not learned from history as we head into another national 
election with voting systems in the US still not up to the standards required 
to prevent high error rates, fraud, and guarantee complete access to all legal 
voters, etc.

Computerized touch screen voting with no paper trail?  Continued potential 
for electoral tampering and fraud, here in the greatest democracy in the world?  

Ted Moffett

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 Donovan:
 
 Do not blame Bush's win in Florida on voter error! &nbsp;This is a horre=
ndous distortion of what happened. &nbsp;Of course voters made mistakes, but=
 consider that thousands of Florida voters did vote correctly, or attempted=20=
to vote, but their votes were not counted due to machine malfunction, or vot=
ers were denied the right to vote from an illegal voter purge list enacted b=
y the State of Florida under Katherine Harris, that purged legitimate voters=
 from the voting rolls. &nbsp;Guess which counties had the highest machine e=
rror rate? &nbsp;Counties with a high percentage of Black voters, which just=
 happened to be the poorer counties who could not afford to update or mainta=
in their voting machines. &nbsp;Such an unfortunate "accident." &nbsp;Guess=20=
which minority group was heavily represented in the illegal voter purge list=
? &nbsp;Yes, correct Mr. Donovan, Black voters it is! &nbsp;And let's not fo=
rget the felonious absentee ballet application tampering by Republican opera=
tives in two Florida counties, Martin and Seminole. &nbsp;And then no quick=20=
summary of the fraud in Florida 2000 is complete unless we give honorable me=
ntion to Republican Congressman Tom Delay's mob of Washington Republican sta=
ffers flown in to disrupt, with fist pounding yelling harassment INSIDE THE=20=
BUILDING, the court ordered recount of votes in Miami-Dade County.
 
 Amazing that last week in Moscow protesters were BLOCKED from entering a=
 building where a bunch of deluded fundamentalist sexist gay bashers were po=
sing as serious intellectuals, misleading those who were unfortunate enough=20=
to take them seriously. &nbsp;Yet in Gore v. Bush 2000 in Florida protesters=
 were ALLOWED to enter a building to disrupt a court ordered recount of vote=
s. &nbsp;I guess the lesson is that fundamentalist sexist gay bashers are du=
e more police protection than civil servants trying to carry out court order=
ed duties involving the heart of our democracy.
 
 It appears we have not learned from history as we head into another nati=
onal election with voting systems in the US still not up to the standards re=
quired to prevent high error rates, fraud, and guarantee complete access to=20=
all legal voters, etc.
 
 Computerized touch screen voting with no paper trail? &nbsp;Continued po=
tential for electoral tampering and fraud, here in the greatest democracy in=
 the world? &nbsp;
 
 Ted Moffett</HTML>

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